Things Americans Do That Confuse the Rest of the World [KOREAN REACT]
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Most people in the US learn the metric and imperial system for science and math classes, but most forget how to convert.
mkzTx I think It would be better to actually learn to understand it than just learn to convert.
Would like the U.S to actually use the metric system but it’s far too late for that. Would have to change every measurement and numbers. A lot of damn paperwork also 😔
@@kennynguyen6246 Because of the jobs I've worked, I've rarely used the imperial system for my entire adult life. Only for things like groceries. But I like how we learn both
people learn that everywhere but we generally use the most commonly used in our country that's why we forget
I learned a year ago and I have no memory on converting lol
We all hate the gap in the stalls. Its like a dream when you go to the restroom and private down to the gap.
I feel like a very perverted person created American bathroom stalls. I don't want, nor need, to see others during a VERY personal moment! 😒 #RantOver lol!
But yes - when no one can see in, nor you can see out, the stall IS like a dream come true 🙏
True and also the kids crawling under them like demons trying to snatch your soul-
There is a girl at my school who crawled into my friends stall when she was using the bathroom and took pics of her. I later found out she did that with other girls in the bathroom too and stuff like this could be prevented if they made the stalls more secure
Omg I hate them too I was literally using the bathroom in church and this little kid tried to crawl in the stall I was using like wtf and in school we had a stall that had a 2 foot gap on the side and one time all the stalls were taken so I had no choice but to use it and I swear this weird as girl was trying to look
@@rosagorskikh9825 that's when you kick them, I actually had a similar moment when I was little but I didnt kick the girl because she was like a toddler so🤷♀️I mean I dont mind the stalls having a gap even tho I experienced that because I remembered seeing a drama where these group of girls locked this one girl in a bathroom stall and since they didn't have wide gaps at the bottom she was basically trapped. I'm not exactly sure how they locked her from the outside but that's what happened
when i’m not covering my mouth when i laugh, i am clapping like a seal or dying on the ground while laughing.
Oof. Same tho
same I was never taught to do so when I waas younger
Shii me to 😭😭
We are taught about the metric system but since this country doesn't use it we eventually forget about it
Ahh I love your profile pic ponyo 🥺🥺
I remember using learning about the metric system in elementary school. The only time I ever use it now is for science class
I learned it in Highschool. I forgot most of the conversions, bit because I live close to the border and often buy groceries in mexico I still can estimate just about.
It's the same for the rest of the world. We are taught the imperial units, but we pretty much never use it. There are a few jobs where it's used, but it pretty much just gets frustrating because you often need special tools just because it's from the US.
Not only that, but it's really unintuitive and inaccurate, and you end up with stuff like 2 inches and 7/13 if you want actual accuracy. It's just absolute garbage when accuracy is required.
@@CottidaeSEA I'm waiting for the U.S. to convert completely, but the older generation is adamantly unmoving on the subject. It should slowly be integrated to the younger generation untill the system in no more
Important to realise, for those reading the comments that In America, servers/wait staff do not earn a liveable wage. So their wage is not enough to cover rent and basic necessities. They use tips to supplement their wages. It was also confusing for me to since the rest of the world only tips if they feel it or the service was really great.
Preach! As a waitress my checks came out $0.00 because of tax. Plus most restaurants have tip out every night! If someone doesn't tip me I'm actually LOSING money cause I have to tip out bar and hosts.
Yeah but having expensive meal and still having to leave a tip is definitely not cool. It puts a burden of someone's livelihood on a customer instead of the employer
ps. I'm European so can youl Murican's stop telling me to not eat out. This was just a statement as to why I think your tip system is shitty, nth more. If I were to eat out in Murcia I would tip bc I'm not an asshole.
@trix o you've probably made a lot of people upset/ cry. I've had some bad nights and if someone doesn't tip it's devastating
The fact that waiter relies on tips for living.......That shouldn't be a customer concern though. If the service is good, then you get the tip. The fact that some waiters think they are obligated to receiving tip always pisses me off. Tipping puts burden on the customers too.
@@skdavidnba it's just American culture. Don't go to restaurants if it's such a burden. It does suck how the industry works but not tipping is only hurting the people who are trying to make a living.
“You are 147 pounds, how do you feel?”
“I feel like a meat” 😂😂😂😂
Lmao
Lmao
Lmao
I mean aren't we all sacks of meat?
tall midget Technically
Don’t worry Americans are confused too. Source: I’m American
Agent Mcsxouty I know that, I was pointing out that I as an American think some things we do here are weird
I’m French and the more confusing things for me is why do you use pounds instead of kilograms and inches instead of cm ? That’s so weird for me
Clara A I have no idea why we do that. I would switch to kg and cm but now inches and pounds are so pounded into my head that I’m unable to
Edith Estridge I see 😅 this is so complicated in America
Clara A it’s not since we grow up in it, we use it cause to us it’s simple, it’s written on a lot of cans, boxes, etc. so when we say it’s 15 pounds, we automatically know, it’s confusing to you since you don’t use it daily, but when you do it’s actually quite simple to grasp
American foods are getting smaller nowadays. Like McDonalds and Pizzahut, their burgers or "large" pizzas shrank compared to how it was long ago.
Wait really 😭
CHIASA SAJONARA Food is Food. Most of us don’t notice 😂
But still it is larger than other countries 😅😂
Good, maybe in 100 years you'll be down to 20% obesity instead of 40%, lol.
Wojak yeah ha, fucking hilarious.
“You guys are on a date now.”
“Hello.”
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I cover my mouth when I laugh because I look hella ugly
LoveYourselfAsMuchAsJinLovesHimself 0T7 😂
Also hey army 👋 :)
I bet you're beautiful (when laughing even more!)
Sameee
Honestly same lmao
Same lol I’ve got a bad overbite plus I look weird when I smile
3:33
The larger food portions in America are not bigger because of bigger body proportions. Its the other way around. America's bigger body proportions are because of the bigger food portions. (whether you let it sit and become overweight, or if you work out and turn it to muscle)
And the bigger food portions are a combination of abundant and cheap food supply, and a corporate incentive to cater to customer desire (because it makes more money) rather than customer health. At least historically. Some places are getting better by serving healthier foods, but the corporations still make more money selling large portions en-mass.
yuuuup this is exactly it
Very well said!!
Bigger food portion is because americans mostly don't eat bread. Less bread = more food.
@@AdrianoCROST
"americans mostly don't eat bread"
Wat??
Not in my experience. *Tons* of us eat bread, and do so regularly.
EDIT: Heck, plenty of restaurants serve bread-sticks to munch on as a snack before the meal. Some restaurants even serve them *free* .
Dillsfawn deadass tho, like if you go to olive gardens they give you a whole bread basket to go with your meal 😂😂
You say “large portions” I say “three meals for the price of one”
and I say obesity
Ihavenoidea Uh I weigh 100lbs I dunno bout you
Definitely! Left overs for 2 days lol
@@ihavenoidea4727 Some people don't gain weight by eating this.
Jennica G no it’s not bad, that’s underweight but if you feel fine and am happy that doesn’t matter
When they were talking about Tipping I could only think about how if they came to America and didn’t tip they’d be considered rude 🥴
Most americans dont really like how tipping is an expectation. It's supposed to just be polite but businesses take advantage of it and pay their tipped workers less.
I’ve lived in the U.S. my whole life and I have mostly never personally seen my family tip restaurants. Maybe once or twice when I wasn’t looking, but they rarely do lol
@@ericdunn9001 that is incorrect
die_in_a_hole the reason why it’s expected to tip is because those workers do not get paid enough and so the tips work as their salary. It’s kinda sad your parents don’t tip, but if it’s their choice...
@@mazitate4350 What's incorrect?
As an architecture student, I also had this question for the longest time. It wasn't until I had to do a floor plan for one of my projects that required an ADA-REGULATED bathroom that I found the answer. . .or more like answers. . .now BRACE yourself it is long. 😓
• Easier to Clean: By having a gap at the bottom, bathroom partitions are much easier to clean, as is the whole restroom. You can hose down or even powerwash a restroom that has partitions with gaps at the bottom because the water has somewhere to run even if there’s not a drain in a given stall.
• Emergency Access: If someone loses consciousness in a fully enclosed bathroom, it may take hours for someone to notice. If this happens in a stall with a gap at the bottom, the odds are good someone will notice much quicker, which is important in instances where every second can mean the difference between life and death. Instead of having to break down the door, a first responder can crawl through the gap at the bottom of the partition and unlock the door to render help.
• Deterrent to Undesirable Behavior: Because people can partially see into a bathroom stall that has a gap at the bottom, this type of partition is a natural deterrent to undesirable behavior, such as someone spray painting the stall with graffiti or seeing four feet instead of two 😎.
• More Affordable: Partitions that don’t extend from the floor to the ceiling don’t have to be custom made to fit a room’s exact measurements and they don’t require as many materials to construct. This makes them considerably more affordable.
• Better Air Circulation: Better air circulation is one of the top reasons why there are gaps under toilet stalls. While restrooms with this kind of partition may still get a bit stinky from time to time, things would be even more overwhelming in a fully enclosed stall.
• Keeps the Line Moving: Having a gap at the base of a partition allows people waiting in line to see if a stall is occupied or vacant. This visibility keeps the line moving and prevents wait times from being any longer than they have to be. When a stall isn’t fully enclosed, people often feel like they have to take care of their business even faster, which also helps keep the line moving.
• ADA Compliance: Space is needed to allow for easier maneuverability for patrons in a wheelchair. The gap allows toe space for wheelchair users which allows more room to move within the stalls. 9″ minimum toe space is required per ADA guidelines.
• Escape Route: A lock can jam for a wide variety of reasons. If this happens in a stall that has a gap at the bottom, you have an escape route - you can simply crawl out.
• Toilet Paper Can Be Shared: If you’ve ever run out of toilet paper and had to ask the person in the stall next to you for a few squares, then you’re already familiar with one of the leading reasons for bathroom partitions not extending to the floor. If you’d run out of toilet paper in an enclosed stall, you may have been caught with your pants down at least figurately!
the last one lmao.
Makes sense cus I always had an inkling for a couple of the reasons you mentioned. Now the real question is, why don’t other countries do it then?
@@disappearintothesea actually some countries have integrated to this style but if I had to take a guess. . .they probably just got used to their style of bathrooms OR maybe they value their privacy more than us, who knows? 🤔
Most of these reasons can be achieved by 15-20 cm gaps, there is no need to have almost 2m gaps for "air circulation".
S P so you're just gonna dismiss the emergency access point? That's pretty important and not easily dismissible.
I wanted to say something about when they were talking about tips. We tip in America because the system is shit, waiters/waitresses/busboys often aren’t paid in any other way OTHER than tips. Sometimes it’s their main source of income for that job. So when you come to a diner or something in America, make sure to tip and support their hard work! :)
So it isn't a regulated job? Don't they get minimum wage?
@@Luuhpan Minimum wage for waiters/waitresses is different "because of tipping." Some places only pay their waiters and waitresses $2 an hour. My friend who worked at a restaurant only made $2.14/hour and had to try and make up the rest of it with tips.
@@Luuhpan I work in a restaurant, basically the wait staff sign an agreement to be paid $2-$3 and hour and then we split the tips between the entire staff. You can make good money off of tips if you work often, but if you only have it as a part-time job the money is miniscule.
if its a nice restaurant waiters can earn a hefty sum off tips.
It’s just an excuse for restaurant owners to underpay their staff and force the customer to make up the deficit. It creates all sorts of problems if 20-30% is expected. If you don’t tip or give too little, the server might give you crap service or spit in your food next time. So you feel you have to tip the expected amount even if the service isn’t great 🙁
As an American I don’t understand why we have the imperial system. Who came up with that?!🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
Britain did, but for some reason America didn't stop using it :D
@@Cee_R Even we don't use it😂 - I'm British.
But I do believe the older generation tend to use the imperial system more regularly than younger generation.
In my school work, 90% of the questions use the metric system.
I think England. We are too used to counting a few feet and inches compared to a couple hundred centimeters.
If you go back far enough, Sumerians. It's why we have 60 minute hours, 60 second minutes, other aspects of time divisible by 60 or 12. It's good for fractions. They used base 60 instead of counting in 10s. The number of feet in a yard/mile also correspond to being divisible easily. Imperial is an old system good for quick fractions in your head. Metric is good, but sometimes involves decimals to figure out so is less useful for quick mental math.
america kept using it to try to deter americans from leaving the country
*talking about laughing
*sees Sana
“Pretty. So pretty”
“She looked at me. Did you see her look at me”
😂😂😂
Yeah,so funny part.
i remember when i traveled to japan the bathroom stalls were all usually ceiling to floor and they even had water noises for privacy
I guess japan is full of peepers
@@wolfpackflt670 or it's just secure??
This sounds like toilet heaven for people with paruresis :o
Water noises? I don’t think that’s what it was 🤭
5:51 “maybe there were a lot of crimes with guns” LMAOOo
LOLOLOL. That was my reaction too!
1-800-YELLOW He didn’t have to expose us like that 😂
I mean he ain't wrong in a sense-
Why does every Asian watch friends to see the American experience 💀
It's just a really famous TV show that's all. And when I say famous, I mean, it is known in the whole world. It's quite old, 30 years I believe and back then there weren't that much variety because it cost way too much, and having a TV in itself and everything. Which is why everyone and their grandma have heard of that show I guess 🤷♀️
Oh god, I wonder how they would perceive us if they watched The Office instead of Friends 😂
I've literally never watched Friends and personally didn't know anybody who did. Didn't know it was popular. But then again I'm biased because we watched Moesha, Fresh Prince, and The Parkers
@@lovablecharacter8167 Really? It's super popular in France, and according to my parents it was the same in Australia and Japan too
Never heard of those shows though 😅
@@lovablecharacter8167 loved those shows, and it's a different world💙amazing
I’m from the uk, 3 yrs ago I moved to America. When I saw the toilet stalls I was like “where’s the other half?”
xDD
I went to a public bathroom in a park, and the stalls were LITERALLY, NOT JOKING AT ALL, half the normal size of a door. I don't know how it was allowed
Hey army please sub me
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There are four reasons why you are covering your mouth when you laugh:
1. Conscious the way you look while laughing
2. You have a bad teeth
3. You have a bad breath
4. Afraid of foreign particles / things that will go to your mouth
P.S. I am Asian, so i know.
I’m dutch and i often laugh like that.. i have a stomach issue though so it’s mainly because of number 3 for me.. (it’s a thing my dad has too where the part where your stomach would normally close off the entrance to it being to small or not closing properly so the smell of your stomach comes up and you end up with bad breath you can’t do anything about.. it sucks )
The first one
I'm american and I cover my mouth when I laugh
I hate tipping, waiters/waitresses shouldn’t rely on people for tips. Their company should be the one to provide their wages not us the consumers.
Soul Sparks Tell that to company then.
So then you'll pay more for the food...what's the difference?
What irks me about this is that I barely have any money. So I can rarely treat myself to some outside food. And when I do even if it’s take out and barely scrapped to afford it they still expect me to tip!? Dude! I can barely afford to feed myself! It’s not my job to pay your employees.
What actually bugs me the most is that they don’t get paid a living wage. It’s really messed up and only benefits the employer.
ikr here in England basically no one gives tips lmfao 😂😂😂
Customers will tip even if the company pays for them. In that case, it's a loss for the company even thinking that people tip 100$ as well. So tipping is considered for the servers and the back of house relies on wages
"The burger on the left is a small snack"
my spirit animal
He is definitely america when it comes to food. He has made other comments in other videos about loving the size of american food or at least admitted to eating the whole serving at american restaurants.
Now that I think about it I do cover my mouth when I laugh with people I don’t know that well but that’s because I’m insecure about my smile, not because I’m trying to be polite lmoa
I'm not American but I do that when I've just eaten and I haven't brushed my teeth lol
Scarlett C same
Yeah, fr. I sometimes go for it and cover my whole face while laughing
I only do it when im eating .-.
ARMYYYY
The date thing is just strange to be honest. Day, month, year makes sense, and so does the reverse. But month, day, year?
DD/MM/YYYY is a little better than MM/DD/YYYY but in reality only YYYY/MM/DD makes sense. The largest timescale should always come first. For example my music collection is dated that way, and when i sort my list by date it is sorted perfectly chronologically. If I had dated it Day first then the top of the list might have something from the 2010's because it was released on the 1st of any given month, and the bottom might have something from the 60's because it was released on the 31st of any given month.
@@MrMo0nlight It depends entirely on how you sort things. When sorting, it's almost always better to sort by the one that changes the least frequently, which is the year in this case. That way you can sort into groups and further sort them afterward.
Although if you sort it in a computer program with something like Java, you can simply sort by number, as the date is saved as a number that doesn't have anything to do with the formatting.
Programmer here by the way, so I have a hard time not making comparisons since it's what I do on a regular basis.
@@CottidaeSEA But if you go year month day the method isn't even a concern. Even a text string will sort correctly. You could even argue that the year should come first because it's the most important piece of data. If I told you I was born on July 7th it wouldn't mean much, but if I told you I was born in 1935 that might tell you a lot about me.
@@MrMo0nlight Year first would be helpful for historical records(although with digital records, it'd rarely matter), but in day to day use the year would be pretty irrelevant. eg: appointments, bookings, when work is complted, dates displayed on pcs, phones, etc. I regularly check the date for todays date, but not for the month or year.
MrMo0nlight true, thats why yyyy/mm/dd is accepted by ISO and it is a worldwide standard. we need to use this in every engineering field. I would say dd/mm/yyyy is great for everyday life but not for work
6:02 when he said “i can do but i don’t prefer” that was so cute 😫😫
Yes he is. He's adorable.
Everytime I watch foreign movies and they ask something like "what's your weight?" And they reply with shit like "I'm 67 kg" I just sit there confused af 😭 I use to think they were literally 67 pounds
Lol I always remember it as multiply by 2.2
The only reason I understand kg is because of working in the medical field where we have to use it for medication purposes. You won’t see pounds ever. Then people constantly complain that they don’t know their weights.
i dont know kg either
👀 I think every non English speaking country uses kilograms.. good luck you all
@@SophiaStfleur so 1kg= 2.2 lbs?
To be fair, the US military and the scientific organizations in the US use metric. Also, the US Customary Units are actually defined in terms of metric units.
David Frischknecht good point! A lot of healthcare is in metric too (unless you’re including this in scientific)
True, it's mostly a local thing since it would be impossible to work with the rest of the world otherwise, and it has caused issue in the past.
Yea, and Fahrenheit deserves a pass since 0-100 degrees pretty much constitutes the living temperatures throughout the year so Celsius cannot beat it in that regard (but Celsius and kelvin are obviously used in science).
US military has to be aware of metric unit for global reason but nobody that I worked with in the navy uses metric in their day to day work. The planes, weapons, etc specs are all (mostly) imperial units.
Eric Dunn But celsius literally uses freezing point and boiling point as 0 and 100 degrees and is probably the best way to tell the temperature.
2:17 "In Europe" ... I'm French, and the last time i've ate in a plate this tiny, I was 3 years old. I don't know what part of Europe you refer, but it must be a really long time ago.
Damien Thimonier Oui je suis d’accord nos plats ne sont pas aussi petits en France. Nos plats sont juste de taille moyenne
same here in Italy, but it depends if you are eating on a restaurant, fast food or other
I still eat a plate that small and I’m American
@@claraaaa96 c'est pour les fancy restaurant a Paris. Pas les restaurants français que tu trouves partout.
No I think it was suppose to be a exaggeration
America is basically that one girl in your school who’s swears she’s cool because she’s thinks she’s doing something “different” 💀
Mele Kioa Also the one who overkills
American here - can't agree more
We're the first and also the most successful democracy on Earth, so... Clearly we're good at being different.
xthatwhiteguyx Oh, are you sure about that?
xthatwhiteguyx wait let’s not be hasty here
Why Americans tip so much needs to be better explained. Wait staff are paid differently from regular workers and need the tips to make a livable wage. Even if AWESOME WORLD knows this, a lot of viewers may not.
Thinking the same thing👏👏
Tipping is waiters/waitresses income. That's why you need to tip.
But in a poverty stricken country. They can barely afford the food
MMWO the waiters are only paid differently in America, so other countries don’t have to deal with tipping, unless someone travels to America.
But is it mandatory? If I go to America as a tourist do I have to tip?
jae lmao you also tip in other countries, america isn’t the only one 😐
I remember I was watching a Korean show with English subtitles. They were talking about weight using the metric system (I heard the word kilo) but then the subber translated it to pounds so I still had to go goggle the number in pounds back to kilos to figure out how much it was. Even though the original vid used kilos 😂😂😭
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
as an American I don’t understand why I’ve barely been taught about the metric system BUT STILL HAVE TO USE IT IN SCIENCE WHEN I DONT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT 🤧 AMERICA PLS JUST CHANGE TO METRIC
they do teach the metric system, but since we don’t use the metric system we just forget about it
Switching now would honestly be a bad idea. It's ingrained in all of us.
I think they tried at one point and everybody was just like “nah fam”
pretty sure america tried to enforce using the metric system once, but it failed because americans were too used to the imperial system and i guess were too lazy (or found it unnecessary because america was already using something that was normalized, so why change?)
kaio james I’ve never done drugs and I used the metric system 😐
I hope someone explained to them that “servers” get paid $3 an hr so tipping is essential.
More like $7 or $8 plus tips. They make good money let's be real.
@@cusegirl5 nope, not all servers, many, including all my family that worked as waiters and servers, were barely paid anything, they only got lucky every now and then when a Customer tipped really good
@@cusegirl5 I guess it depends on where in the US? I live in Florida and a host at the first restaurant I work now and the servers get paid 5, and they said the restaurant is being generous because they are used to getting paid 2 or 3. Not sure where you heard 7 or 8.
I wasn't saying anything about good or bad pay-- I was saying tipping was essential because of the base hourly. You really think that $7 an hour is liveable? They don't make "good money" if there's no tip....
Sue Holtz no they don’t. only if u work in an upscale restaurant then yes. imagine working in an every-day restaurant or diner. $3 an hour MAYBE, and $5 tip per entire table.
I love how excited the one guy is about the burgers lol.
Wtf is that tiny dinner plate for europe??? We do have smth between restaurant and homes for both as well thank you
it's like a meme/joke to show that europe has smaller food portions lol
It looks like the kid's portion at an American restaurant lmao
Tae's loud a** sneeze stans Suga and Spice i would even say home is in my experience the most fitting one i mean come on that’s ridiculous!!!
@@kikicoco5787 That's usually what I eat to be honest. I guess it just depends on your activities and from where exactly you're coming from?
The Europe food portion is so wrong😂😂 that's what you would give to a kid
Day/month/year.
Day first makes sense, because it's the number that changes most so more relevant when figuring out what day it is.
Surely?
Yea.. America is simply the weirdest about that but I agree with you
I'm not American, but I think they use month/day/year because they say it as for example "January 1st 2020" instead of "the 1st of January 2020", but yeah, day/month/year ftw :D
@@Cee_R other english speaking countries: cri
@@Cee_R In the uk, in a school text book we would write "January 2nd 2020" but also "02/01/20" and days it's the 2nd of January but when reading the first one say "January the first twenty twenty"....
In the U.S, I assume we write it Month/Day/Year because when we write with words it’s usually April 8th, 2020. Thus making 04/08/20
Edit: I didn’t see the comment above whoops
4:33 Did anyone else laugh at the " Nah bruh " on the receipt ?? 😂
Moral of this story: America thinks she's special and quirky when in reality she's that most annoying girl u know
This comment sends me 😂😂
마리아Aurolus As an American I fully agree 😂😂
Who’s also slightly overweight but thinks she’s a damn model too
Same I'm American but sometimes I think that the crap we do are dumb
Oh god gracious 😂😂😂
“How does it feel to be 147 pounds?”
*”I feel like Meat”*
4:30 someone really said "nah bruh -2.47" lmao americans wildin
When I went to korea, the no tipping culture was heavennnnn
Michelle absolutely until you realize waitress can include a tip in the total amount and you cannot question.
SB Plays really? That never happened to me. The check total was always equal to how much our food cost
I never know i should tip people in western country somehow i feel bad for the waiter here^^;;
준立派 if you didn’t grew up in America then you probably didn’t know but now you know so tip when you go out
Really? It's so stressful to you to add a few dollars to your bill, that not having to do that is heaven?
" *I feel like a meat* " 😂😂😂
Well same as kg.😂
In my country Bulgaria we write it in this order: day, month, year. From the shorter time to the longer :)
In my country to day-month-year
same in South Africa
As an American, this was very entertaining. Don't worry, we realize how strange we are.
As a US citizen I was enlightened by my foreign friends about the differences and really started wondering who in the US made these decisions and what were they smoking? It is so ez to remember that 100 is boiling and 0 is freezing in everyone's system but ours. I have no idea why we have to be so "special" about every stupid thing. Even in data integration standards, the US uses X12 but the rest of the world uses EDIFACT. EDIFACT makes so much more sense.
I also hate the tipping culture. My friends do too. Raise the cost of food and be done with it.
Tipping is polite, both because they are paid *very* little, and also as a way to show your appreciation and pity for all the fucking Karen's they have to deal with while putting on a smile
I hate the tipping culture... For the rest of the world and where i live... if waiters ask customer or expect customer to tip, the customer can complain to their manager... Cause your customers is not your employer... All the services including food is included in the price of foods... There's no such thing as "i serve you, so you should have the sense to tip me" thinking. And it is not rude at all, cause we're not beggars, our boss pay our wages. I mean some restaurant have a self service culture too... You pick the food and take the food to your own table... That's it... But sucks being American if they work like slaves and expect people to pay them instead of their own boss.. what a shitty boss.. 😓
Alex as a US citizen maybe do some research if you really want to be enlightened.
Simply put it's because until the digital era we wrote out pretty much all dates as "April 17, 2020" it was pretty much never abbreviated to 5/17/2020 until computers and what not started showing up.
As a side note the United Kingdom are the ones who started this date format not the USA, but since we were on the other side of the pond we just never assimilated to the European format.
As a second side note; the US military, China, Japan, and Korean nations usually use YYYY/MM/DD which is actually the format set by the International Standardization Organisation.
The story behind metric is a little more interesting, the short answer is that pirates yes pirates stopped the US from changing by capturing and killing the teacher that was supposed to come to the USA to teach and bring the metric scaling and measurements. By time metric finally made it's way to the US we were so ingrained with the imperial system that we got from Britain that it would literally cost us billions of US$ to make the change and we wouldn't receive any benefits from doing it so we said fuck it and stayed with what we know.
BadKitty NoTuna April has always been the 4th month
Alex S it’s the same thing with tax. I don’t understand why they don’t just include tax in the price. I don’t want to her to guess how much I’ll actually be paying.
I live in the US and every time my family and I eat at a restaurant, my mom would tip the waitress because the food was good and waitress was very kind to us. My family isn't doing it because we have to, it's because we want to.
If the waitress was an ass to us, do you think we'll tip them? Hell no 😂
My parents do tha too but my dad used to work in restaurants so he says understands how tough it is and how little money they get so he tips a lot if they're good
Well you can't not tip somtimes. For example SATO which is a Japanese restaurant (fancy and very good food) makes you give 20% more of the bill for a tip.
welp guess not i just kept watching lmao
You should always tips regardless because these fuckin people are workin with only $2/hour sometimes and are vastly fucking overworked. They are expected to do a shit ton of labor both physically and emotionally for next to nothing so pardon them if someone can't be 100% for their entire long ass shift for a wage that is next to nothing. So again, you should always fucking tip and if a your server does a good job you fuckin tip more than the accepted minimum(15/20%).
@@MommahKat
Well that's you, congratulations ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But that won't change how my family and I do things when it comes to restaurants.
Yes you give them a tip but you have to deserve that big tip by being a very nice and hardworking waitress but if you're some asshole that expects money... (Inhales)... *BOI*
The tipping part is funny because I remember going to a Korean restaurant in NYC and they don't even let us choose if we want to tip or how much, she just included the tip of her choosing in our bill and I was like uhh this isn't how we do it in America lmaooo
This Korean restaurant in Texas, adds the tip to your total so you can pick which percentage of tipping you wanna do. So, I dont have to add it up myself
it depends on the restaurant. I've been to places where if you have 5-6+ people at a table, 15% gratuity is automatically applied to your bill for you. For smaller group it's usually up to you. Also tipping is a thing in American culture bc most waiters work for under minimum wage and restaurants use tips to balance it out.
@@zelos138 It was just me and my friend, so we should have been able to choose what percentage we wanted to tip. Also I didnt say that tipping isnt a thing in America, but in America we dont demand tips or include it in someones bill. you give them the option no matter what.
In most restaurants if you are in a group, number depends but usually 5+, then the tip is automatically added. Very common practice because of the extra work and it may take more than one server to accommodate the group.
Not A Gamer that’s not true at all, I’ve lived in the U.S. my whole life and I can think of several restaurants that include the tip in the total bill
Oh I didn't know that's why people were always tipped so high in the states. I thought it was cause the person really liked their service. Now I know it cause they aren't paid enough according to other comments.
Jennifer A It’s pretty messed up how these rich restaurant chains normalized not paying their employees and pretty much making their customers pay their employees.
Codi Mullins $2.15 an hour? Shouldn’t that be illegal what the hell🤕
ksj ikr! Feels like it should be, but here it's like oh it's not illegal because part of your job description is to make it up in tips
@@ksj1191 yeah, plus the 2.15 is taxed out of your paychecks so every paycheck I get is $0.00. I have to claim tips every shift and tip out bar and hosts. So I literally only make money on what people leave me.
@@ksj1191 not if you take into account tips. Imagine you are serving 4 tables in that hour. Imagine that one table tips $3, one table tips $6 and the other two tip $4. That means in that hour you made $19.15 an hour. If you take a family out your bill might be $50-75. A 20% tip would be $10-15 for a SINGLE table. The other thing is that bad servers will get bad tips and stop being servers.
6:47 is that Kanye West in the background wearing a uniform
When I was in elementary school, one of my teachers told me that the reason the date is written month day year is because of the highest numbers in each. So since month is only 1-12, it's first. Then day is second because it's 1-31, and year is last because it's in the thousands. Although that was probably just so we could remember the order
Ho Seung: thin body, fat spirit 😂😂
I'm American and I've been covering my mouth when I laugh my whole life.😂
The restaurant portion size thing is awesome for me in the US. I always am able to take home two extra meals that way. So while I can't justify spending $15-20 on a meal, I can justify $5-7 on each meal.
and you can also justify that belly of urs hell yeeaa
the gap is in case of fire or other emergency..the firemen or whoever can quickly run thru checking for people. Also a person in case of fire can crawl underneath away from smoke.
yup, there's a bunch of reasons
“Friends” is not the American experience. Lol! There was absolutely no diversity on that show.
Which is odd cause they lived in NEW YORK CITY. One of their phrases is The Melting Pot!
Yeah and NO NORMAL PERSON in NYC has an apartment THAT BIG. Only if they’re super rich.
there was plenty of diversity on the show that friends copied (go watch living single y'all)
Why not? Joey was latino, monica and ross were jews, ross had an asian and an african-american gf. and a lesbian ex wife... they touched everything a little bit without feeling the pressure to add 1 main character from every possible community and background on earth
@@BY-me3cp joey was italian
I never use to cover my mouth when i laughed cause I was raised in America (I’m Korean American)
But I got into the habit after meeting Koreans traveling abroad studying at my school
Whenever they laughed they would cover there mouth,
And I picked up on it
I’m in Korea now PROUD TO BE KOREAN
Really? Not saying bad about your country but just some of my opinion that if I’m Korean American, I may not be proud to be KOREAN. ( I’m a locally born Taiwanese by the way. ) When I watch some Kpop stuff or Korean movies, those things like the honorifics and the age system which are deeply rooted in Korean culture really make people get stressed. It’s hard to imagine even for me as a Taiwanese that both of our countries are affected by Confucius culture.
I’m from America and these days I laugh with my hand over my mouth but at the same time that only lasts for like 2 seconds lol
When I die of laughter I have no time to cover my mouth 😂
facts mostly bc i only hang around ppl i like and the people i like dont care bc if im laughing they are laughing and even if they were to say something it would most likely be a joke.
you only do it bc ur a kpop fangirl. fax.
@@whateven7031 same for u, but you prolly an anime type of guy. That's why u do it.
@@ihavenoidea4727 sorry i have been reading this and i dont understand im not being rude really but can you explain
@@ihavenoidea4727 ooooh i read it again and understand, i think are you saying because im into k pop or anime that why i cover my mouth, well if it is i do it mostly while eating but decided to start doing it every time i laugh but not really because i like k pop nor anime
The cracks in the door was an old design so if someone had a medical emergency and was not responsive in the stall, someone could look in and see if they're okay, is what I'm told.
Well uhhhhhhhhh as an american i still dont like it
But the rest of the world is still alive in their bathrooms so I think that point is pointless.
@@fufu2000_ it was designed during a time of drug overdose deaths that was at an all time high. And as we know, America doesn't like to change anything from our past. 🙄
@@fufu2000_ Not really pointless considering that it's most likely still been useful to a lot of people that have had complications in a stall or health issues and whatnot. For example, when I was like 13 I rushed to the bathroom because I started to feel extremely sick, but once I got into the stall my entire body was in so much pain starting from my legs I couldn't even open the stall door. I sat on the floor of the stall writhing in pain for a long while before a student finally wondered why someone was sitting on the floor crying. She kept asking if I were okay but by that point I was in so much I could barely speak. So she looked through the crack to see what was going on and when she finally saw me she ran to get help. If she hadn't been able to look through the gap it would've delayed her reaction time even moreso OR she probably wouldn't even have gotten help at all. Especially considering that so many other students came in and out before her and didn't bother trying to help. That gap isn't always a good thing but it can definitely save a life. I would know.
History Boomer you don't have to like it
because Canada and America are so close together we share many of these things(Well the English provinces, the French provinces are extremely European), but as a Canadian I never understood the imperial system
I'm american and I don't get why we still use it and why older generations are so resistant to change or switching over completely.
@@roguechevelle Older generation definitely resisted in Canada. But they didn't have a choice. It made sense though. My dad still uses F° for temps... haha
Simply put it's because until the digital era we wrote out pretty much all dates as "April 17, 2020" it was pretty much never abbreviated to 5/17/2020 until computers and what not started showing up.
As a side note the United Kingdom are the ones who started this date format not the USA, but since we were on the other side of the pond we just never assimilated to the European format.
As a second side note; the US military, China, Japan, and Korean nations usually use YYYY/MM/DD which is actually the format set by the International Standardization Organisation.
The story behind metric is a little more interesting, the short answer is that pirates yes pirates stopped the US from changing by capturing and killing the teacher that was supposed to come to the USA to teach and bring the metric scaling and measurements. By time metric finally made it's way to the US we were so ingrained with the imperial system that we got from Britain that it would literally cost us billions of US$ to make the change and we wouldn't receive any benefits from doing it so we said fuck it and stayed with what we know.
After watching all these videos I've come to a conclusion... Me and Ho Seung are too similar, when it comes to food😂😂. Also, tipping is a must, because our waiters/waitresses dont get paid enough. If someone does a great job I've given $15-20 t tips, or I'll sneak to my fav waiter/waitress when it's a big party being served so they don't have to share. They work too hard and with different personalities everyday to be paid so low and only rely on tips to survive.
isn't there a minimum wage ? is it too low ?
@@sloanenguyen9767 There is minimum wage, but I believe they get paid lower than minimum wage- less than $3
ARC98 , I always do 20% tip
sloane nguyen minimum wage for waiters/waitresses in most, if not all of the US, is around 2.25- sometimes 3.25$ (if they’re lucky)
At one of the restaurants where I live: whatever a waiter/waitress makes in a day, he/she needs to share with the rest of the staff :/ it’s stupid and fucked up.
I dont think it should be a must though, if you like the service you can tip them whenever.
Love that 5 Guys is getting the international love they deserve. That man knows a good burger.
I am so used to American measurements that I have to get my phone and do conversions
same lol
1) McDonald's changed their sizes many years ago (at least where I live). Their current "large" is their old "medium." They don't have those big cups anymore :(
2) Americans do MM/DD/YYYY because that is how it is spoken. When we speak, we say "December 25th, 2019." We don't say "2019 December 25th" and generally not "The 25th of December, 2019," though that is still accurate. So our method makes sense.
3) ALL schools in the United States teach both metric and imperial/English systems. We do/should know both.
Ho Seung is so adorable!
No one:
Ho Seung:
"I can do, but I don't prefer"
His englishue
I’m a little confused. That guy said he was 176 cm and 5’ 7” but I’m 5’ 9” and the internet says that I’m 175 cm. 🤔
Yeah I think their measurements were a bit off, because I am 5'10 and that is about 178 cm. So it's a bit confusing
He didn't say he was 5'7", he said he was 5.7 feet. So he was right, he's about 5'9".
Jasmine. Thanks for the explanation. I understand now.
I was scrolling for a comment on this. What’s probably more confusing for non-Americans is that we also don’t measure height with just one unit of measure. That we would never say we are 5.7 feet but rather 5’9” (5 feet, 9 inches). And the reason that we express height this way comes back to the fact that Imperial is not base 10. It’s confusing for us to use a decimal when it takes 12 of the smaller unit to get to the larger unit. 😆
bandgeekryn I just had a stroke trying to read this 😂 Americans rly like it the difficult way lol
6:01 this dude is seriously attractive, can speak English, been to the US and even prefers some American things
there's such big tipping culture because it's considered to be part of the server's income.
yea
6:55 The guy on the left says he’s 176cm, and is told he’s 5.7feet
He’s around 5.8ft but usually we just say 5’9
5 feet and 9 19/64ths inches lol
Actually, I’m the USA we learn both systems! Most of use forget it though because of lack of use. But for example, I can know the night and weight conversions in both systems off the top of my head. However, When it comes to converting miles? What 🤯 is a kilometer?!? Cannot remember... but I just re-learned it a year ago... I already forgot
I love your channel. As an American it is very educational and funny. Love you guys. Please keep making videos. Can't wait to see more.
Even though I’m used to the Date order, I actually use the Korean system (didn’t know that what was Korean, etc used) when I store my digital photos I’ve taken!
A lot of countries do the day/month/year order. Just not the US
Neko Kitty ah yes. The US way is MM/DD/YYYY and it looks like Korea, China, etc is YYYY/MM/DD which is a bit different for us in the US
I had a korean friend that went to my school and he would cover his mouth whenever he would talk. I thought he was nicely telling me my breaths stinks 😂😂😂 oops🤣🤣🤣🤣
The guy on the right is adorable! I appreciate his positive attitude. :)
When I went to Japan, I was delighted with the fact that there wasn't a 1 inch gap on either side of the bathroom stall doors. Then when I got back to the US and went to the ladies' room at the airport, it was like... wtf?
1:10 I'm american and I laugh like that, but that's because I'm insecure of my teeth.
I don't get the hand covering the laughing mouth, either. Big smiles and laughter are beautiful and contagious, in a good way. We Americans are generally a very friendly, laughing bunch.
I cover my mouth when laughing tho, but thats just cause of my insecurity of my smile 🗿
"you guys are on a date now"
"anyeonhaseao~~~~" *gulps*
Important to note: servers in America, at least where I've worked, don't usually make more than 2-4$ an hour. Restaurants are actively allowed to pay far below minimum wage because it's expected that customers tip. It's definitely not a good thing, but it's the way things work. On particularly slow days, I've lost money on a shift because of the cost of gas getting me to and from work.
Korean guy: Americans must love laughing
Me: *laughs in confusion*...
*stops*
oh... :/
*starts laughing again*
*stops again*
oh..
repeats this 3x
*oh...*
he said “you only need to eat one burger in america” HAHAHAHAHhahahahaha...
FYI, in the US military and many US government offices, they use yyyy/mm/dd format. So there are two different formats that are used in the USA. In general outside of those areas, yes it’s mm/dd/yyyy format.
Wow! I don't expect HoSeung to eat that much... I'm glad he's eating well~^^
Love eating :>
@@hoseung_ronnie 오? 아직 안주무세요?
답장 고마워영~😁
“I can do, but I don’t prefer” aweee
too cute..and I like they were open between the two cultures
6:46 WTF IS THAT IMAGE IN THE BG LMAOOOO-
"I feel like meat" lmao!!!
the reason why tipping is a MUST in America is because the waiters/waitresses don't get paid enough... base pay for them is lower than normal minimum wage because it's expected that tips will fill that gap (even though it usually doesn't)
At this point this show is just becoming a series of episodes involving Hoseung being the only man I trust. Except the weight oof I feel like a whale in comparison 😅
The imperial system gets me so annoyed at times😂😂like whenever I’m with friends from other countries I feel dumb 🙃😅I have to take out my phone and convert to ounces /pounds / feet / miles 🤦🏻♀️ 😂😂
Daisy Ochoa just smile and nod, and they’ll assume you understand. 😂😂😂
Awwww when Jin Kyu said everyone is beautiful when they smile and nobody shuns from the smiling face so laugh more. 🥺🥺💜 I was like YAY that’s so sweet but at the beginning, 0:04, he still covered his mouth when he laughed. 😢 So don’t cover your mouth (unless you feel uncomfortable I don’t want to force anybody) we want to see your smile!!! 😊😊😊
"I feel like a meal" lol felt that
US: Month, Day, Year
Korea: Year, Month Day
South America: Day, Month, Year
For me, south America makes more sense, maybe that's just because I live there
It's the same here in India and ya it makes more sense than the other ones
it's the same for any place you live in for a long period of time. you get use to doing things a certain way and when you go somewhere else and they do it different it can be confusing.
Day, Month, Year is the most correct one honestly. Start from the small to big (day>month>year)
Month, day, year makes perfect sense if your brain is trained to think like that. Day, month, year just feels off. Can relate to y/m/d more tbh. But once again. Only because of brain training.
That said, I understand why people would use KG, and cm for weight and height but always hear them in lbs and ft/inches. I blame Americans. At least we still use KMs and other metric for most everything else in Canada.
UntarWow Really don’t understand how month day year makes sense but ok. Maybe the best one is actually day year month
6:16 the MIDDLEFINGER AHHAHAHHA
Uhm, I'm Spanish and here we don't cover our mouth when we laugh xD.
Well, a lot of the things in the video are from America, but another ones are in more countries xD. Could be that they aren't in Korea, but they are in te rest of the world. Btw, love this video :3.
Sorry for my bad english xD.
Re: tips in the US--servers in America are often/usually paid less than the minimum wage. Tips are expected to supplement and make a more livable income. It's a crazy system but until the wage issue is adressed (if ever) I don't mind tipping servers
It's a complicated issue because tipping is part of our culture. Often times wait staff make more in one night than any other staff does in the entire week. This isn't hyperbole, it's personal experience. My uncle and I worked at the same restaurant for years (I was the head cook, he was a waiter) and he would easily make $300-$500 on Friday nights, alone, just in tips. Which is why wait staff are paid under minimum wage.
by law, the owner of the establishment must make up the difference if the tips do not push their wage up to minimum wage. Also it only applies to a portion of the US. In many states, wait staff make minimum wage or higher and also get tips. Take a waiter I knew in Hollywood. On a good night, would easily clear about over $800/night because they were paid $20/hr and then got their tips on top of that. A bartender made 20k/month in tips.
@@tkim2320 :Yes. Bartending is a whole nother animal.
Thing about °C is that it just feels way more logical. At 0°C water freezes while at 100°C it boils.
Dang If he’s 147 lbs then I’m the size of a grown man 😭